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I know someone is gonna best me, but I still like to think I have alot.

6262 songs.

Damn.

I have so many songs in my iPod that the counter has rolled over to zeros again :)

I don't know what happens when it gets to that point.

Just keep adding songs to your iPod avuee and one day you will see what I'm talking about...

5145. Not quite as many as Stretch, but still enough for me.

What if I use WinAmp? :P

14,150. :/

Yeah I've 40,000 songs hanging out in well ordered directories... Why would I want iTunes to ruin all my fun when Windows Explorer does the job 20 times easier?

That said I started adding them to iTunes at one point and I got bored after a couple of thousand songs so cancelled it.

I like to keep it at about 1000. I don't think I can like more than that at one time.

I'm kind of disappointed.

4,200.

I just cleared mine out. I was at two hundred something. But I hate having tracks that I've never listened to before. So I think this time around I'll keep it to a 100 and see how that goes.

5947. :|
Winamp ftw, though. I only use Itunes to update my Ipod. :P

mine usually varies, right now 718

Curious - do you have backups for your music libraries? A better question is how do you back up your music libraries?

@Oli - how much disk space does 40K songs take up? :)

10016 for me. And I definitely don't let iTunes organize my music. I don't like the way they do it.

3041 at present.
It all lives on a NASbox I built in my apartment and it also lives backed up on my iPod.

I plan to get another hard drive and run the NAS in a RAID so everything will be redundant because I really don't want to rip all those CDs again.

I have an old PC tower that I use as a media server, which mirrors what I have on my old 3rd gen ipod. Both have about 14,000 songs on them and growing. Music is a weakness for me; I buy at least one new CD every other week.

On the verge of 14,000! Same as ryan I use an old Dell tower as a home server (running fedora). The library is actually located on that server, and iTunes looks to that share for the library. I have an apple script on my macbook that connects to the share, then opens iTunes (so iTunes doesn't get confused). The server also runs mt-daapd so anyone on my network can listen to my library as well. Every morning at 3am, the server rsync's the library to an external usb drive and backs it up! almost 90gigs I think.

40 I WIN!

5,034, but a great portion of that isn't mine, it's my husband's, and my daughter has some in there too. Kind of a family sort of thing going on over here. On my iPod, I have 912 songs, but that's not the whole of it really, "it" being the music collection, since I've still got a huge number of CD's that need to be ripped into iTunes...but it's not high on the list at the moment.

Yeah my iTunes library is TINY... but my iPod has 575 songs on it.

Regarding the backing up of songs, I use the antiquated method of scheduling a regular sync to an external hard drive.

I purged a while ago and got it down to 30k, but I'm back up to 41,440. (For Tyme's benefit, that's using up 300GB -- if that seems high, it's because there's a fair bit of FLAC in there.)

I have absolutely no need for that much music, and I'll never listen to most of it more than once, but as a bonafide addict, I download a lot of music just to see what it's like. I often end up never listening to it again, but being too lazy to delete it, thus: huge library.

Use Napster's free full length preview and download if you like it... it'll spare you HD space :)

I can download it just as fast as Napster can buffer it. Besides, a lot (maybe as much as half) of it comes from music blogs and independent labels -- the sort of stuff Napster and most mainstream outfits don't stock.

Yours takes up 300gigs, Rich? Ouchies. 1000 fewer songs here and 100 fewer gigs.

I wonder what's causing such a difference.

Unless you have a lot of 1-track mixes like that one you used for the music quiz... That would explain things.

3883. Used to have way more but 2 music library crashes later and here I am.

I had my first iTunes library of 22,345 crash.

So I am starting over with a library of 692.

Oli: FLAC. Lots of it.

I have just under 1,000, and don't really find the need for more than that at the moment.

I'd rip more things to lossless formats but it's device compatibility which is my issue. If I want something as near lossless as possible, I'll go with a 320 CBR MP3. Or AAC if I'm feeling fruity.

That said it's not like I've got production-studio quality playback here. Just the onboard 5.1 and some logitech speakers.

3,000. :) Counting 4 crashes total. :P

Everybody keeps talking about crashes... Why don't you get yourself some RAID5 love? I've not had a disk from this RAID array die yet so I'm not sure how painful it's going to be but I'm sure I'm going to find God the same day I realise I haven't lost a terabyte of data.

I've lost amounts disks before and I know how painful it is. After I lost 120gigs of schnizzle, I moved over onto RAID and I've never looked back (apart from one scare).

NAS (networked storage) is pretty cheap these days too.

10,547 songs all legally obtained (meaning I purchased each one, either in CD format or digital 847 of them from itunes store)

15774 songs for a continuous playing time of 46 days, 9 hours, 35 minutes, 57 seconds in my main library, all lovingly tagged, organized maintained and playlisted by iTunes. Everything is backed up twice a day to hard disk and archived on DVD as warranted.

And I've actually listened to every single song in that library. In fact, my blog started as a chronicle of my listening experiences as I listened to my complete library. It took an entire year, but I made it through the whole thing.

Additionally, I have about 4000 more songs in my extended collection. It's mostly stuff that's been encoded but not tagged properly or new tunes I just haven't had the chance to listen to yet.

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47676 songs, 3736 albums, 237 gigs and growing

always remember to back.up and listen to random stuff like clay aiken

2923. I'm in the process of rating all my music and anything with one star gets automatically trashed and thing with two stars get taken to Erin's Official Review Board. I've eliminated about 3000 songs so far, but I hope to whittle it down to about 1000 songs when the process is all done. The goal is to be able to put my entire library on random and like/be familiar with every, single thing I hear.

i have 3 mp3 players
some big old creative one that looks like a discman only 10 time heavier lol
a sony walkman thats 20gb and its full up 10,000 songs or sumtin like that
and a 80gb ipod which has just been filled
walkman harddrive is messed up, it works when i have it hooked to my laptop, but on its own it says i have an empty harddrive, HELP

4,906 with trimming whenever I get near 30 gigs. That way, my iPod always has all my music on it. (Mirror my hard drive)
iTunes for the win... all music stored on iPod and external hard drive.

I know this is going to sound crazy but I have 87,276 songs on an external hard drive.

wow northface25! Eighty-seven thousand songs! That does sounds crazy! - The original iPod was marketed as "1,000 songs in your pocket" now with the new 160GB iPod you can carry 40,000 songs in your pocket! (sorry northface25 you'll need two)

I've got 6,729 digital songs but generally listen to about 600 of them - I find depending on my mood some albums will be listened to more frequently than others, rotating through my collection...

If I really like a band I'll buy a hard copy of the album on CD and rip it to my digital collection, I usually justify the purchase as an appreciation to the band and for album art work, as I never play CDs on a stereo...

and I stupidly haven't backed up my digital collection =(

2021.

5939 songs, 15.6 days and 28.08 gigs. Couple that with ~160 gigs of movies and my iTunes server can keep me entertained for ~4 weeks straight :) Best thing ever was setting up an HTTP/FTP service on the same machine, next step will be streaming directly from the machine so when I'm on campus I can still enjoy my library.

13,626. 50.2 Days. 111.02GB. And Yes i am on the look out for an extra harddrive if anyone can suggest a cheap place to pick one up from for my G5. I also have about 2000 tracks at work too.

I'm also a DJ too so i accumulate on average about 30 tracks a day i'd say. The list is growing. Also iTunes is the best for Music. So easy to navigate and find everything. Easy integration with programs like Ableton too! PERFECT.

Zero!

My PC crashed and is lying in a corner somewhere.

(Music's still there of course, but I doubt I'll be able to port it to the iBook I'm currently on anytime soon).

Here's to new beginnings ;-)

Why don't you get an external enclosure for the hard disk or was it that that died?

The disk's fine, it was the motherboard/CPU.

That's not a half-bad idea, though. Not at all!

Thanks, Oli, I'll look into that.